The Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage used these black trees to trap the Youmeng race, treating them like nourishment, while the Meat-Winged Monsters captured various desolate beasts to use as fertilizer for the black trees.
Xiang Beifei had seen many of the Ghost Mustaches and Meat-Winged Monsters; both races were very cruel and often collaborated to deal with other races, even joining forces a thousand years ago to attack the Hanxia Human Race.
There were some common points between them, which made Xiang Beifei even more puzzled.
Xiang Beifei walked closer to a black tree, examining it. The trunk was entirely black, exuding a lifeless aura. Upon closer inspection, one could vaguely see faint red blood lines beneath the trunk.
These red blood lines seemed to be caused by the desolate beast nourishment devoured under the tree roots, very eerie. But apart from that, he couldn’t figure out what it was.
Erha wanted to control these black trees again, but Xiang Beifei shook his head: "Don’t mess things up, at least not now. We need to see what the Meat-Winged Monsters are doing with these black trees, then give them a fatal blow!"
It was clear that the Meat-Winged Monsters had some purpose for breeding these black trees and valued them highly; otherwise, they wouldn’t plant these black trees in the Underworld Sea area.
Not to mention the Eternal Night Demon King deliberately protected this island earlier, seemingly as a precaution, to prevent outsiders from approaching.
So, Xiang Beifei needed to understand. If these trees were truly so important, he would have a bargaining chip when facing the Eternal Night Demon King.
He didn’t continue to concern himself with these trees but cautiously moved forward, heading deep into the black forest.
All over the ground were various kinds of dying desolate beasts, and Xiang Beifei even saw some members of the Yi Tribe!
He encountered a short, entirely metallic-made Yi Tribe person and saw a humanoid race with only one hand and one foot; he hadn’t seen most of these races and couldn’t identify the origins of these Yi Tribe cultivators.
However, Xiang Beifei could still distinguish their strength, ranging from the God Refining stage to the orifice transforming stage!
Gradually, Xiang Beifei also noticed a pattern: the taller the trees, the more potent the nourishments rooted beneath them.
"If that’s the case, if Senior Helian were here, based on his judgment of strength, he should look for those relatively tall trees."
Xiang Beifei immediately leaped above the black forest, scanning the entire woodland for those relatively taller trees.
However, the black forest floor was composed of various piled desolate beasts, and the sizes varied greatly. Some desolate beasts were as big as small mountains, naturally making the black trees growing on them taller. This made it difficult to determine definitively.
But soon, Xiang Beifei discovered he was overthinking. In the center of the black forest were several extremely tall black trees, standing out prominently, easily estimated to be over a hundred meters!
Such towering trees stood out conspicuously, much more noticeable than the trees he saw upon entering, saving him the trouble of searching further.
Without hesitation, he started to explore toward those few tall trees.
About half an incense stick later, he got close to these tall black trees, with a three-headed Yi Tribe person lying beneath the nearest one.
This race had three identical heads, but a giant tree stood on their chest, pressing down on them. The tree roots had already enveloped two of the heads, with half of the remaining face also connected to the roots.
Xiang Beifei didn’t recognize this three-headed Yi Tribe person, but the tree growing on this cultivator was exceptionally tall, possibly indicating strong power.
His eyes glowed faintly white.
Sure enough, a Heavenly Law appeared above the three-headed Yi Tribe’s head!
This meant the other party was indeed a master of the Heavenly Connection realm!
Only cultivators of the Heavenly Connection realm could communicate with the Heavenly Dao, possessing their own Heavenly Law, the only Dao embryo communicable by every race’s Yi Tribe.
The Heavenly Law in front of him was a three-headed deity glowing with golden light, with fierce, wide-open eyes, extremely solemn and dignified.
However, the Heavenly Law seemed very thin, flickering as if it were on the brink of collapse.
Xiang Beifei used his Dao embryo knowledge to analyze this Yi Tribe cultivator, and soon the information appeared before him:
[Host: Jian Zhuihong]
[Dao embryo: Three heads]
[Realm: Early Heavenly Connection]
[Dao embryo ability: Three heads possessing three lives, capable of dividing into three complete entities for a short time, all retaining full strength]
"Dividing into three independent entities while retaining full strength? That’s quite impressive."
Xiang Beifei couldn’t help but be amazed.
He had imitated the Clone System with his abilities, but even for him, when separating, his overall strength would be dispersed. For instance, if he divided into two, his power, speed, etc., would be halved.
This three-headed race’s Dao embryo could maintain full strength after tripling itself, a rarity indeed.